Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives

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U of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 212 σελίδες
 

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Im Puerto Rican I Was Born Here Negotiating Race and National Identity in Puerto Rican Literature
3
East Side Story Chicanoa Urban Myth and History
38
American She Gendering Gangs
83
Inside and Outside the Gang Nation
126

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Σελίδα xxxi - Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without...
Σελίδα xxvii - I mean the whole range from the right to a modicum of economic welfare and security to the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in the society.
Σελίδα xix - criminal' — the racialized figure of the criminal — has come to represent the most menacing enemy of 'American society.' Virtually anything is acceptable — torture, brutality, vast expenditures of public funds — as long as it is done in the name of public safety. Racism has always found an easy route from its embeddedness in social structures to the psyches of collectives and individuals precisely because it mobilizes deep fears.
Σελίδα xxix - the order of discursive practices whose reign within a national space . . . transforms individuals into subjects of a collectively held history. Its traditional icons, its metaphors, its heroes, its rituals, and its narratives provide an alphabet for a collective consciousness or national subjectivity; through the National Symbolic, the historical nation aspires to achieve the inevitability of the status of natural law, a birthright.

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